> [!cite] BHL link: this entry starts at [page 616](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33333755) of TL-2 Vol. V > Author links: [IPNI](https://www.ipni.org/a/9693-1) LSID 9693-1, [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q64091) QID Q64091 > Support pages: [[Abbreviations|abbreviations]], [[Layout key|layout key]], [[Cite TL-2|cite TL-2]] ### Author Singer, Rolf (1906-x), German mycologist; Dr. phil. Univ. Wien 1931 (student of R. Wettstein); emigrated to Barcelona, Spain 1933; Komarov botanical Institue, Leningrad 1935-1940; curator at the Farlow Herbarium 1941-1948, at the Instituto Miguel Lillo, Tucuman, Argentina 1948-1962; from 1962-1967 in Buenos Aires, 1967-1968 in Chile; from 1968 in Chicago. **Abbreviated name**: *Singer* \[standard form in IPNI: *Singer*\] #### Herbarium and types Material at [[Collection BAFC|BAFC]], [[Collection LPS|LPS]], [[Collection M|M]], [[Collection MICH|MICH]], [[Collection SGO|SGO]], [[Collection URM|URM]], [[Collection W|W]]. – *Letters* at [[Collection G|G]]. #### Bibliography and biography Ainsworth p. 207, 269, 334; Barnhart 3: 282 (b. 23 Jun 1906); Biol.-Dokum. 17: 8702-8703; BJI 2: 164; Bossert p. 368; IH 1 (ed. 1): 96, (ed. 2): 122, (ed. 3): 156; (ed. 4): 174, (ed. 6): 60, (ed. 7): 343; Kelly p. 214; LS 25628-25662; MW p. 453, suppl. 323; Stevenson p. 1258. #### Biofile - Anon., Field Mus. nat. Hist. Bull. 43(4): 6. 1972 (portr.); Amer. men sci. eds. 7-15, 1944-1982. - Hennig, B., Handb. Pilzfreunde 4: 96-100. 1967 (biogr. sketch and evaluation). - Kotlaba, F. & Z. Pouzar, Ceska Mykol. 30: 221-224. 1976 (tribute 70th birthday; portr.). - Lowden, R.M., Taxon, Index pers. names vols. 1-30. 671. 1985. - Moser, M., Schweiz. Z. Pilzk. 44: 81-83. 1966 (tribute, portr.), Z. Pilzk. 42A: 127-128. 1976 (id. 70th birthday). - Moser, M. & E. Horak, Beih. Sydowia 8: 1-13. 1979 (bibl.). - Rogers, D.P., Brief hist. mycol. N. amer. ed. 2: 79. 1981. - Singer, M., Beih. Sydowia 8: 14-25. 1979 ("Glancing back" by Mrs. R. Singer). - Singer, R., Fl. neotropica 32 (Hydropus): 153. 1982 (brief biogr. note; portr.). - Verdoorn, F., ed., Chron. bot. 5: 307. 1939, 7: 186. 1943. #### Festschrift Festschrift für R. Singer. Beihefte zur Sydowia VIII, 1979, eds. M. Moser & E. Horak. #### Eponymy *Mesosingeria* S. Archangelsky (1963); *Singera* A.C. Batista et J. Bezerra (1960); *Singerella* H. Harmaja (1974); *Singeriella* Petrak(1959); *Singeromyces* Moser (1966). #### Note Most of Singer's major publications in bookform came out after our closing date (1939), e.g. *The Agaricales in modern taxonomy*, publ. Jun 1951 in Lilloa 22: 1-832, *20 pl*., ed. 2. 1962 (Taxon 11: 257. 1962, 12: 37-38. 1963), ed. 3, 1975 (Taxon 24: 531. 1975) and *Die Röhrlinge*, 2 vols. 1965 and 1967. *The Boletineae of Florida*, a series of four papers in Farlowia and the American Midland Naturalist 1945-1947 was reprinted 1977 as Bibliotheca mycologica Band 58 (J. Cramer, Vaduz, ISBN 3-7682-1145-2). For a complete bibliography see M. Moser & E. Horak (1979). ### Publications ##### n.12.027. Pilze aus dem Kaukasus **Title** *Pilze aus dem Kaukasus*. Ein Beitrag zur Flora des südwestlichen Zentralkaukasus \[Sonderabdruck aus "Beihefte zum Bot. Centralbl." Bd. xlvi. (1929) Abt. ii. Prag\]. Oct. **Notes** *Publ*.: 1929, p. \[71\]-113, *pl. I. Copy*: FH. – Reprinted and to be cited from Beih. bot. Centralbl. 46(2): 71-113, *pl. I 1929*.